High temperatures on motherboard S5500BC

[Reddax]

Hi,

I'm running Unraid on my S5500BC motherboard using both cpu slots and it's showing very high temps for the "Intel5500 - MB temp". At Idle it's hitting around 77 degrees celcius, whereas the cpus are sitting at 28 degrees.

I've attached an image with an arrow pointing to possibly the heatsink that's hitting this high temp, as it feels extremely hot . Do I need to be worried about it hitting so high at idle? Can I get a fan to clip onto it to cool it down?

[mineblaster]

airflow from the cpu cooler should cover that heatsink. the smaller one between the two cpu sockets may be overheating.a case with alot of airflow for these boards is what they are designed for.

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, mineblaster said:

airflow from the cpu cooler should cover that heatsink. the smaller one between the two cpu sockets may be overheating.a case with alot of airflow for these boards is what they are designed for.

Those older chipsets also just run hot as hell, my S5520HC boards do the same thing. @Reddax As long as they stay below 90C you're good.

[Reddax]

16 hours ago, leadeater said:

Those older chipsets also just run hot as hell, my S5520HC boards do the same thing. @Reddax As long as they stay below 90C you're good.

Decided to just go for it and bought a super cheap 40mm fan and screwed it straight into the heatsink and brought it down to about 50 degrees. Doesn't make any more noise and brings down the temps so I'm happy 

 

Edited April 25, 2019 by Reddax
added a piccy

[mineblaster]

that looks good and secured 

 

if you ever need some cpu heatsinks there are some noctua coolers that fit and dont overhang the socket

 

https://noctua.at/en/nh-d9dx-i4-3u